Doily Cone Party Favor by Stacey

Our design team members are in LOVE with SRM's Doilies.  They are so much fun!  Today Stacey Schafer is here with a cone favor using a White Lace Doily - 6" Round that is reinforced with a piece of patterned paper.  The cone is tied with some soft ribbon and stuffed with iridescent easter grass, ready for candy filling!

Here's a peek at the inside of the cone where you can see the patterned paper that is reinforcing the doily's cone shape. 

 What an easy, quick and darling party favor for all occasions!  These would be especially adorable for a baby shower, don't you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by the SRM Stickers Blog today!  What would you do with SRM Doilies?  See them all HERE.

Happy Summer by Shannon

Today we welcome Shannon Morgan back to the SRM Design Team.  She's one of the **Emeritus** members.  Sometimes when you start using SRM Stickers you become addicted and this was the case with Shannon!  She's hooked!  

When Shannon plays with paper and stickers the results are magical!  I would love to watch her work on a layout or card as she layers so many wonderful little details into her project.  This summer layout is no exception with fabulous photos of her kids playing in summer.    

I love how Shannon puts SRM Stickers right onto her photo.  They melt down onto any surface as if they are printed on that surface, even photos.  And she loves the impact of the sticker without losing the effect of any of the photo.

Shannon loves how she can layer with SRM and loves the look of vellum in the mix.  YUM!

The use of SRM Borders and Sticker Stitches are so much fun on this layout!

Love the way the SRM Sticker looks mounted on vellum with that "Sunny Smiles" sticker. 

For Shannon, crafting is in the details but the overall effect is so free and fun!  Hope that you'll try some of Shannon's techniques on your next layout.  Click on each photo to enlarge so you can see every detail!

Here are the stickers that Shannon used on this layout:

Express Yourself/Water Fun 

We've Got Your Border/Bright 

We've Got Your Border/Wedding 

Live Life/Water Fun

Sticker Stitches/Black

Sticker Sentiment/Summer

Birthday Mini Calendar by Christine

Mini calendars make perfect little gifts that have the special homemade touch!  Christine Meyer's husband's family is now up to 26 people and that makes keeping track of birthdays absolutely brutal!  Her in laws are always happy to receive a new calendar with all the birthdays on it so she got a jump on this one for 2015!  And you are in for a treat!

To package the calendar Christine used a Clear Mini Box and then decorated the outside using Large and Medium Punched Pieces, Take 2 Stickers by the Dozen - Birthday, and We've Got Your Border Stickers Birthday.

She made one long accordion folded style calender by adhering together 3 inch wide pieces of cardstock and doing some scoring.

Christine decorated each square with a Medium Black Punched Piece, some Black Sticker Stitches, and of course the Mini Calendar Stickers - Standard.

Her last step was to cut up pieces of the Birthday Border stickers and use the dots to highlight each birthday.  Christine color coordinated them by family too!  Brilliant!  I think I'm going to have to make some of these.  Who wouldn't love to receive such a practical, crafty, personalized gift!  Calendar perfection!

SRM Supplies Used:

We've Got Your Border - Birthday

Mini Calender Stickers- Standard

Black Sticker Stitches

Punched Pieces

Clear Mini Box

Take 2 Stickers by the Dozen - Birthday

A Boy's Life Layout by Cathy H.

Cathy Harper has created a wonderful layout that's all about a boy, her grandson Gideon!  Cathy found him a Superman cap that's just perfect for her little superhero!  She loved the photo so much, she knew she needed to create a page.

For her layout, Cathy used lots stickers from SRM's Everyday Boy sheet.  She loves how these clear stickers just melt down into the page and look like the text is printed right onto the page.  

Cathy loved adding lots of little extras to her page made using the Everyday Boy stickers like the 100% Boy paperclip she created or the little red cross stitches or the loopy border on the bottom both from SRM's Sticker Stitches.  She also loved using some SRM Punched Pieces in black giving the layout more pop and as a great point of focus.  Love the special little heart at the bottom of her page symbolizing how Gideon truly steals her heart everyday.  She finished  off the layout by adding her favorite embellishment, Maraschino Red Baker's Twine.  YUM! 

 

Here's the Everyday Boy Sticker and as you can see there are lots more stickers that Cathy can use on another layout featuring Gideon.  Wonder what he'll do next? 

Thanks Cathy for a darling layout of a darling boy!  

Card Gift Set by Shery

Let's welcome Shery Russ to the SRM Team.  This is her first post and you are in for a treat! 

Shery loves creating card gift sets.  For this set she combined stamping, SRM Sticker Sentiments, a SRM Doily and a clear A-2 Box topped with a SRM Made by Label to hold her special cards.  

This set of cards are all one layer.  They are inexpensive to make and easy to mail.  But Shery says that one layer cards are a challenge by themselves as every time she sets out to create them, it pushes her to come up with creative ways to use stamps, inks and stickers.  Instead of relying on layering, you have to rely on one dimensional design. 

Shery stamped 6 A2 cards,  in different colors.  She then affixed clear sticker sentiments from SRM, 3 thank you and 3 Oh Happy Day.

These cards, along with matching white envelopes, fit perfectly inside the A2 Card Box.  What a delicious grouping of cards and what a perfect gift for a teacher or friend.

Once all her cards were done, Shery decorated the clear box with Sticker Stitches and made a topper using SRM's 4" white doilies.  She took two doilies folded in half and then pleated.  She inked the edges of the doily to match the splatters on the top card.  She attached Velcro on two ends of a burlap ribbon and then glued her topper onto one of the ends.  That Made with Love Sticker is mounted on on Punched Piece.  Our design team members are loving the Punched Pieces.  Easy peasy!

When Shery made these cards, she did them assembly line style so the cards were done in quick time. With one sticker sheet, you can make at least a dozen cards with the images and sentiments (24 cards if you use them separately)...and then you've got mini sentiments to use on tags, journal cards, or your other paper craft projects.

Thanks for the inspiration Shery.  This card set is totally awesome!

Hooray USA! by Cathy H.

The SRM Blog usually doesn't have Saturday posts but on this long weekend we thought you would enjoy some 4th of July layout inspiration from Cathy Harper.  She loves making layouts and loves using SRM Stickers mounted on vellum or right down on her patterned papers!  SRM Stickers truly melt right down onto any surface that you are working on.  Click on these photos to see all the fun details! 

Cathy's layout is of her adorable little 4th of July pup.  She has the most patient bulldog ever who puts up with all of of Cathy's photo taking props. 

 SRM had all of the perfect stickers to add some great layers to her layout.  Cathy used We've Got Your Border/Patriotic for some added pops of color along the top of the page and bottom of her layout and then she used them again on two sides of her photo.  Cathy created to little vellum pennants using the Stickers By The Dozen/Patriotic and the We've Got Your Border stickers.  

She finished with a couple of flags from Stickers By The Dozen, Small White Punched Pieces and some Maraschino Twine!  Love this photo of her bulldog Stella and all the little details that SRM Stickers added!  And love the use of vellum with SRM clear stickers.

Hope you are having a wonderful 4th of July weekend.  Any time to squeeze a little crafting in?

Happy Day by Michele

Happy 4th of July!  Hope you are all planning lots of "happy" things to do throughout the day and evening.  

Today we are sharing the first project from Michele Kovack whose crafting skills are amazing.  We are so blessed to have her on our team. Prepare for some  inspiration! :)

When Michele thinks of "happy" she usually thinks of bright, fun colors!  So when she took her bag of Punched Pieces from SRM she wanted them to reflect happiness.  She took out her alcohol inks and started randomly squirting them the white scalloped circles with various colors.  She loved the splotched, colorful look!  

Since Michele is a total hoarder and never seems to throw anything away, she keeps all of her cuts from previous projects.  In a way, it's a good thing she does, because it saves her time later!  The flower she used on this project, for example, was from a previous project that didn't make the cut.  The leaves were also from something else but the worked perfectly here!   Michele added a bit of ribbon and her Happy Day sentiment sticker from SRM's Stickers by the Dozen Birthday Birdie sheet.  

Michele loved how this card turned out and has a few more ideas about how to used SRM's Punched Pieces.  Stay tuned for more Punched Pieces projects in the very near future!  Have a happy day!  

Shell Bag by Cassonda

Meet Cassonda Tadlock.  She's wild for SRM and you will be wild about her.  What a creative talent she is.  So thrilled to have her on our team. 

Here's a wonderful project from Cassonda that just perfect for summer.  She made it to use which at the beach collecting shells.  She was recently visiting a friend, collecting shells on the beach and tried to hold them all in her hand, in her pockets and finally in a ziploc baggie.  She thought it would be so much better to create a wonderful little bag to collect and store all her shell treasures so she used a SRM Muslin bag to make it. 

First she sprayed some Glimmer Mist on top of a Heidi Swapp stencil.  She let both sides dry, spraying one side at a time.  Once dry, she added the stamped shell images with some Stazon ink so that it would not rub off.  

Then she went to work embellishing the bag to her liking.  She stamped and heat embossed a 2" SRM Punched Pieces with metallic powder and safety pinned in onto the bag with a larger 2 1/2" Punched Pieces underneath.  

Then she added some Sticker Stitches on the bottom and a Summer Fun Sticker Sentitment as well. 

What a great idea Cassonda!  I'm sure that you have inspired many of our readers to create a little collection bag just like yours!  

Sunny Days & Lemonade by Diane

Today we welcome Diane Jaquay to the SRM Design Team!  Diane hails from Pennsylvania and her style is perfection!

Prior to the Design Team Call I was not familiar with Diane's work but when I saw her blog I was hooked and I knew immediately that I wanted her to be a member of our team.  I was so tickled to see her first project, a sweet packaging idea using SRM's large Kraft Bags, Doilies, SRM Borders and Twine!  She made these packets for her neighbors to welcome summer!  What a sweet treat!

To make these treat holders Diane started with an SRM Kraft bag that she folded and sewed with a zig zag stitch on 3 sides to form a pouch.  The 4" round doily is the perfect size to decorate the front of the pouch, and she just loved the way the Kraft color and doily looked together.  On top of the doily Diane placed several PTI Circle Scribble die cuts to look like the sun, then she topped it all off with a "sunny days & lemonade" sticker from SRM's Sticker Sentiment/Summer, with a green scallop trim across the bottom from SRM's We've Got Your Border/Bright.  Love how Diane used 3 strands of Mandarin Orange Twine on her project for added impact.  Looks great!

Diane made several of these and thinks she'll give them to a few of the Mom's with young children in her neighborhood as a way of saying "welcome summer"!  There are so many things you could put in these pouches, and so many ways you could decorate them. What ideas will you come up with?

Easy as Pie by Shantie

Welcome back to the SRM Design Team Shantaie Fowler!  Shantaie is one of 2 "emeritus" members of our new team which means that she was on an earlier team, loves her SRM so much and applied again.  Can't get enough of her talent!

Shantaie loves little gifts for every occasion, and what could be sweeter or more American than pie? This blueberry pie gift box is all decked out for the 4th of July! 

 She started by cutting a blue pie box with the Silhouette and started dressing it up with embossed kraft paper crust and a wavy We've Got Your Border sticker. Shantaie loves using a border sticker on a project like this because it's so much more manageable and much quicker than ribbon would be! (we all love quick right?)

Shantaie has this serious love for stickpins, and especially creating her own! Here she cut little berry shapes and coated them with glossy accents and sandwiched a flat quilting pin between them.  She did the same with the Say It with Stickers star by adhering the star to card stock and trimming it. Ta da custom stickpin!

Top off your pie with a dollop of glittery pleated lollipops, Punched Pieces, and a glitter rimmed Express Yourself sticker! Now time to fill it with a little treat and share with someone special! 

Thank you Shantaie for sharing this fabulous All American prize winning pie!  YUM!  It looks good enough it eat!